{"id":6879,"date":"2018-09-28T10:00:11","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T10:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/?p=6879"},"modified":"2018-09-27T14:10:19","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T14:10:19","slug":"illinois-appellate-court-decides-that-contribution-claim-had-to-be-on-verdict-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-decides-that-contribution-claim-had-to-be-on-verdict-form\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Appellate Court Decides that Contribution Claim Had to Be on Verdict Form"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Illinois Appellate Court found that there was a discrepancy in the meaning of \u201ccommon liability\u201d in Section 2(b) of the <a href=\"https:\/\/law.justia.com\/codes\/illinois\/2005\/chapter57\/2041.html\">Illinois Joint Tortfeasor Contribution Act<\/a>. The underlying case was when an Alex Express freightliner crashed into the car of Thomas and Diane Roberts.<\/p>\n<p>The Roberts family claimed $2 million in damages when they sued Alexandria Transportation, Solomakha and Alex Express. The defendants were collectively referred to as \u201cAlex,\u201d which then pursued contribution claims against Edwards-Kamadulski and Safety International, one of its contractors that was working on the highway project where the Roberts were injured.<\/p>\n<p>After a series of settlements, including a deal in which Edwards-Kamadulski paid $50,000 to the Roberts family, the only claim left for trial was Alex\u2019s contribution complaint against Safety International.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-decides-that-contribution-claim-had-to-be-on-verdict-form\/#more-6879\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Illinois Appellate Court found that there was a discrepancy in the meaning of \u201ccommon liability\u201d in Section 2(b) of the Illinois Joint Tortfeasor Contribution Act. The underlying case was when an Alex Express freightliner crashed into the car of Thomas and Diane Roberts. The Roberts family claimed $2 million in damages when they sued [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22,71,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-illinois-civil-procedure","category-jury-instructions","category-trial-practice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Illinois Appellate Court Decides that Contribution Claim Had to Be on Verdict Form &#8212; Chicago Injury Lawyer Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Illinois Appellate Court found that there was a discrepancy in the meaning of \u201ccommon liability\u201d in Section 2(b) of the Illinois Joint Tortfeasor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-decides-that-contribution-claim-had-to-be-on-verdict-form\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Illinois Appellate Court Decides that Contribution Claim Had to Be on Verdict Form &#8212; 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